> What possible benefit would it give companies whose entire business value revolves around their data. You are right, but inviting them is still worth doing.

> What possible benefit would it give companies whose entire business value revolves around their data. You are right, but inviting them is still worth doing. BTW, diaspora* should have also been invited, but as I understand, they were. > federated/distributed social networking benefits are the 1% of nerds I actually tried to understand how can I benefit from a distributed social network and did not (I almost stopped using FB as well, not for the privacy reasons, but because of little utility given the time it consumes). > Yes, XMPP...once the golden boy of federated discussion platforms...has been totally deprecated by the top two implementors. Why? For Google it was primarily because Microsoft used their XMPP integration in Outlook but refused to allow Google to have a similar Skype integration. Somewhere on HN Googlers were writing about this. Don't remember, but I think FB also integrated Google Talk as well without allowing reciprocal integration for Google. > The fact that anyone actually sat down and took the time to build specs for federated social networking is a miracle to me...considering there's practically zero business value in it. Again, I agree, but there is zero value in a good spec that is followed by a single product. At least diaspora* and GNU Social should agree on this standard so that we can in future use different federated social network distros.